Game is such great fun to play with either my 6 year old or 13 year old (and my 37 year old mate's played me at it too!) Yep another successful Mario Spin off game and my eldest was over the moon to get it for Christmas.

Aces' new special moves turn the casual back-and-forth into a frantic high-speed chess match, while the story mode offers an ample number of charmingly wacky challenges that help to hone your skills in the process and get you match fit for online competitions. But here’s the problem: you’re only given the option of one-off matches against friends and strangers for online. At launch there are no tournaments, no leaderboards and not even any sort of ranking system, so it’s going to be difficult to find someone on you skill level. Sure, there will be timed events that will see online tournaments become available for select days, but that’s still very inconvenient for the average player. But if you’re happy to just play through the short adventure and reserve competitive matches for your friends, then Aces is undoubtedly one of the best multiplayers on the Switch right now.

The new tennis features give matches frantic fun ; The Adventure Mode is a terrific teacher; Creative boss battles are bursting with originality;

Shallow online features; A couple of of level designs are infuriating in Adventure Mode;

The new tennis features give matches frantic fun ; The Adventure Mode is a terrific teacher; Creative boss battles are bursting with originality;

Shallow online features; A couple of of level designs are infuriating in Adventure Mode;

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A fantastically arcade styled single and multi-player tennis experience offering fun for those who are fans of the sport or not.

Overall, Mario Tennis Aces does a good job with its Online Mode, and Adventure Mode ends up being a good starting point for the title. If Camelot does some updating on changing options and giving gamers more freedom, this could give the game a lot more life in the future.

The Mario Tennis series is a bit like that former tennis prodigy who never quite broke through to the big time. Early signs of spontaneous genius appear to have been gradually ground out of them, as they turn into a thoroughly solid but firmly second-tier pro.

Solid and definitely has an audience. There could be some hard-to-ignore faults, but the experience is fun.

‘Mario Tennis Aces' delivers a satisfying, though brief, game of tennis.

Playing virtual tennis feels great; Accessible; yet offers some depth; Surprisingly funny writing; Strategic and thrilling online matches

Story mode is too short; …and there's not much to do after